Where is a best place to be a lady in a UK?

East Dunbartonshire is a best place to live in a UK if we are a woman, according to investigate for BBC Radio 4′s Woman’s Hour.

The Scottish internal authority, that borders Glasgow, came out tip when a series of factors, embody some gender-specific measures, were analysed.

Islington, in north London, was rated a misfortune place for women to live.

The National Centre for Social Research research factored in issues such as a gender compensate opening and education.

It used information from a series of sources, including a Office for National statistics’ 2016 Annual Population Survey and a 2011 Census.

Of all 380 internal authorities in a UK, East Dunbartonshire came out tip for women, rating rarely on a series of factors, from complacency to entrance to immature spaces – and top-scoring on ubiquitous vital and wellbeing.

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The normal full-time income for women in East Dunbartonshire was £15.07 per hour, 46th in a UK. It also ranked rarely for education, peculiarity of a internal sourroundings and life satisfaction.

The area, that contains many of Glasgow’s suburbs and commuter towns, ranked 192nd for housing affordability with an normal skill costing 7.5 times a area’s normal salary.

‘A good place’

It’s not a initial time East Dunbartonshire’s appropriateness has been recognised.

In 2007, a Reader’s Digest poll saw it voted a best place in a UK to lift a family, citing “safe streets, clever schools and abounding towns”, corroborated by a clever community.

Ellie, 17, goes to Bishopbriggs Academy in East Dunbartonshire and says she feels upheld by both a propagandize and a village it is partial of.

“I’ve not met one chairman in Bishopbriggs who pronounced that we can’t do something, or we can't grasp what we wish to achieve. we consider we all know that we do live in a unequivocally good place and it is a good place to live.”

Classmate Stephanie, 16, said: “I’d like to live here and hopefully have a family here and only be a good purpose indication to all a younger adults of Bishopbriggs.”

But Nieve, 16, pronounced it was doubtful she’d live in Bishopbriggs forever, adding: “I feel like when you’re here we are utterly tied down. we don’t wish to be stranded here.”

Islington is ranked misfortune in vast partial since it is one of a slightest affordable places to buy a home in a country, with a median residence cost 16 times a median income.

The north London precinct was indeed ranked 16th opposite a UK for women’s full-time wages, with a median being £16.35 per hour, though due to a vast gender compensate opening it was bumped into 105th place out of 380.

Residents here also reported a lowest levels of complacency (371st), life compensation (372nd), and feelings that their life is inestimable (379th).

Woman’s Hour listeners have been pity their “best places” online and on air. Caller Lorraine done a box for Thanet, in Kent, that she pronounced was “super affordable”, while enjoying a mercantile opportunities of being tighten to London.

“It’s a dream come loyal to be means to live by a sea,” she said.

Kimberly, who lives on a Gower in Swansea, also enjoyed a advantages of relocating behind to a seashore with her 3 children.

“You can live a really community-focused life here. It’s an immensely understanding place and we adore it,” she said. “Knowing and being famous by generations is a tremendously profitable thing.”

Scotland, south-east England and a West Midlands browbeat a tip 10 list for best altogether place for women to live.

West Oxfordshire and West Berkshire both arrange rarely in a South East, and Stafford and Shropshire are also placed in a tip 10.

But 4 London boroughs underline in a 10 misfortune places for women to live, with Camden, Westminster, and a City of London featuring alongside Islington.

What do women value most?

The research divided women into 3 age groups: those underneath 30; 30 to 65; and over 65s.

Kingston on Hull ranked a misfortune place to live as a lady underneath a age of 30 due to high levels of unemployment.

South Oxfordshire was a best place for women to grow old, braggadocio low womanlike mortality, a low crime rate and fewer women vital alone – that a Women’s Hour news says can lead to siege and a discontinued amicable network.

Woman’s Hour will be promote live from East Dunbartonshire, during 10:00 – 10:45am on Wednesday on Radio 4.